Architecture, Urbanism and Planning

Tag: Architecture

  • Playing with Translucency | Historic Project Excerpts

    Playing with Translucency | Historic Project Excerpts


    Experiments in transparency and translucency, using layers of the facade to merge with and hint at the functions and movements within the building. This is an ongoing interest for the practice with the subtleties of exterior and interior relationships being explored in ways that are about both ambiguity and connection. With the ongoing interest in facade manipulation in Architecture, we believe that the envelope continues to be about both mediation and communication, with the decorative possibilities acheived as a result of these explorations.

    Built Project:

    New low energy slab cooled reception and registry buildings (clashing into and in symbiotic relationship with the back of an existing 60’s courtyard block originally designed for this purpose) designed and completed for the University of Kent at Canterbury while Ulysses Sengupta was Project Architect at Cornish Architects in London.  

    Please use the link below to contact Cornish Architects directly:

    www.cornisharchitects.com

  • Flux Territories | Ganz Feld Verwand Lung

    Ganz_Feld_Verwand-Lung (Flux Territories – The beginning 01) from softgrid_limited on Vimeo.

    An exceptional piece of work by Robert Buehler as part of his final undergraduate year at The University of Nottingham, Department of Architecture & Built Environment. (B.Arch)

    The project involved the merging of virtual (animated), real (filmed) and found (film) material to explore ideas of cities as territories in constant change. It was the beginning of our explorations into emergent systems, parametric urban design and the relationship between identity, memory & urban patterns.

    Student: Robert Buehler

    Studio Leader: Ulysses Sengupta

    More Detail: www.designunit6.com

  • Embedding Ecology – The Eco Farm Project 01

    Embedding Ecology – The Eco Farm Project 01

    Embedding Ecology – The Eco Farm Project 01 from softgrid_limited on Vimeo.

    This is a quick early fly through of a project we are involved in (China ). The video was not meant to be of a completed design, but rather an attitude that we brought to the project in the early stages.

    Our accepted proposal based on this quick visualisation reflected the main spatial/architectural principles involved:
    1) An actual ecological area at the heart of the agricultural/scientific scheme
    2) Public access to the new amenity created (a public park)
    3) Working with the topography and studied water paths and collection
    4) Incorporating/enjoying the abstract patterns created by human intervention in the form of agricultural landscapes
    5) Shifting perceptual possibilities through seasonal variance

    Produced in co-operation with: Marc Sawan
    www.eye-kon.com

  • Introducing Light – Options/Studies for an Office, Laboratory & Exhibition Building 01

    Introducing Light – Options/Studies for an Office, Laboratory & Exhibition Building 01

    Part of  an ongoing series of design options on a large complex building sitting in an enhanced natural landscape with views out onto a lake. The building floats off the ground, with wells of light penetrating deep into the plan. Pools of water and hidden parking beneath the building provide a sheltered environment to enter from. A large green roof and waterside landscape attempt to integrate the building with its location so that one cannot be without the other?